I don't think we'll give up; the reason why we don't have them everywhere already is simply down to money.
NASA and Elon Musk, are working on cheaper propulsion systems, and simply cheaper ways to get us out of our own gravity well.
On a million lbs rocket, 900,000 lbs of it is fuel, most of the rest of the weight is taken up by the material used to build it. Leaving less than 0.1% for payload, which of course has to include, human cargo, oxygen, and water.
We need plasma, electromagnetic, laser, or whatever, something to take us beyond rocket fuel, distilled from crude oil and ethanol.
Too true.
Here's to the future !
raises cup of hot cocoa